Ferries’ book supplier benefits from ideal location of CT3 Business Park
Waterside Book Services Ltd is just one of a number of companies that have found CT3 Business Park at Aylesham to be an ideal location.
Waterside Books supplies books and travel publications to customers in the tourism and travel industries, including the cross-channel ferries and cruise ships departing from Kent’s ports. The company helped to pioneer the supply of books for sale afloat and then diversified into providing cruise ship libraries with reading matter for loan. The subject of a management buyout in February 2009, Waterside Books successfully markets a range of publications including bestsellers, maps & atlases, guide books, phrase books, audio novels and children’s books and activities, as well as providing merchandising and display services.
The firm saw the potential benefits of the CT3 Business Park at an early stage. Says Mike Jarvie, Managing Director, “We took a 2150-square-feet unit in January 2008 because the location of the business park and the amount of space available was just right for our needs. The move has worked out really well for us – there’s ample storage for our range and access to our customers in and around Dover couldn’t be easier.”
Situated just southeast of Canterbury, CT3 is the brainchild of Stour Valley Estates, one of Kent’s leading commercial and industrial property development firms. Its location – just three minutes from the A2 – provides easy access to Dover, the Channel Tunnel, London and the motorway network, making it the perfect choice to accommodate storage and distribution operations.
Other tenants at CT3 include B&M Express Freight Ltd, Building & Landscape Services Ltd, Channel Commercial plc, Clarke Cars, Inhealth Sterile Services Ltd, Trans Global Ltd and Skelton Group. Explains Katie Dove, Property Manager for Stour Valley Estates, “This is a great location with a comprehensive range of unit sizes available and plenty of parking space. With easy transport links and planning permission for 24/7 operational use, CT3 is an ideal home for companies with storage and distribution needs.”
Units are available immediately on flexible long- or short-term leases for storage and distribution facilities, industrial operations, trade counter units and retail businesses. The units feature full height roller shutter doors, 24-hour CCTV, 3-phase power and broadband access. Stour Valley Estates can fit the units out to suit each tenant’s precise needs and – if the size of unit required is not available – new units can be built and ready in just 20 weeks.
In addition to its proximity to major roads, CT3 Business Park is within 5 minutes’ drive of Aylesham railway station and just 20 miles from the Eurostar service at Ashford International station. The city of Canterbury, now benefiting from a new high-speed rail link, is within 6 miles and the Port of Dover is just 8 miles away.
For more details about units available at CT3 Business Park and at Stour Valley Estates’ other commercial developments, please see available rental property here or call 01304 849 210.
December 2009
